I’ll never take WSO for granted again

Spent some time on Blind and Reddit today looking for job advice and those places are UNBELIEVABLY toxic. The people there just reek with this misanthropic smarminess that makes your average WSO-er look like normal and well-adjusted.
 

I’ll take 1000 “rank the BBs” and “why you should pick Indiana over Wharton” and “liberals suck” threads over any of the threads over there. That’s all I wanted to say, thank you for coming to my TED talk. 

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Nobody else going to point out that a "Principal in VC" went on Reddit looking for job advice?

 

Redditors are straight up strange. Every time I go on there I get the impression that the user base in general is wildly insecure and spends way too much time on the internet. I genuinely enjoy WSB - think its hilarious. However. as someone alluded to above, r/all is probably the most toxic, narrow-minded echo chamber on the whole internet. Pretty much a cult at this point lmao

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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We haven't had a ''liberals SUCK'' thread in like a week. They still suck though. Physically and metaphorically.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

I am new to this, But I assume S means Stanford and Kelley is Indiana Kelley?

 
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This is the answer. If you found WSO, you probably take a strong interest in starting/furthering your career in finance. Most people here either went to a really good school, or did well in school, or are scrappy and willing to hustle to make it, or any combination of ambitious traits.

Not even trying to sound like a dick but any time I read threads on Reddit it seems like everyone is a complete loser. People who may be in a bad spot and refuse to take any steps to move forward and make excuse after excuse. It’s a toxic/negative place I try to avoid.

 

Honestly depends what subreddits you browse. I've found the more technical subs much like WSO. Esp the CSCareerAdvice sub where it's an exact copy of WSO except it's for CS majors who want to break into Big Tech. Overall though you are right, I think reddit further pushes echo chambers and two good examples I can give you are any Red Pill subs or any Pro-Feminism subs. Both are toxic and are super echo chambers. I was dumb enough to fall for the red pill meme.

 

Reddit keeps purging all the fun subreddits. It's only a matter of time before they kill WSB.

"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

WSO represents the top 1% of society whereas reddit represents everyone else

 

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